Wednesday, April 13, 2016

F8 2016, Facebook in the future between 360 ° 8k video, virtual reality and artificial intelligence – The Republic



UN KEYNOTE full of novelty, that of Mark Zuckerberg. The CEO of Facebook which he explained what is your vision of the future, not only in the development but also for the scenarios to come, in which virtual reality, artificial intelligence and connectivity will be the protagonists.

Connect the world. the roadmap shown is in fact very clear, and explains what will be the evolution of the popular social network in the next 10 years. If you identify the company Facebook only with site Facebook, thinking that the first plans to introduce hardware and software solutions in the fields far away from the company may seem confusing, but it really is not.

Roadmap final. For Zuckerberg fact the social network is only the first stage of implementation of the true mission of the company is, as always, “connect the world.” In this broader vision that takes the concept of sociality supported by technology to a larger size, it is normal to think both apps for communication, such as WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, and to future developments made of artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Just from these two areas of the rest come the most interesting innovations.

virtual and augmented reality for everyone. The first is called Facebook Surround 360 and is a camera that has the look it is capable of a flying saucer, inside which we find a system of well 17 cameras that, thanks to an advanced algorithm for stitching (the operation of joining and merging of different movie clips to create one panoramic), to produce movies to high resolution, 8k, 360 ° and ready for virtual reality, thus giving the opportunity for content creators to offer them new and more engaging on Facebook, accessible through the website or through a viewer for virtual reality (in fact Facebook has Oculus acquired in 2014). The most interesting aspect, however, is that Facebook Surround 360 is a proprietary design but it will be open source: the company’s Menlo Park it will post the projects and all the inherent material on GitHub by the summer, with the aim of stimulating the market and direct it to developing solutions of this type.

surround 360 Facebook. no coincidence that Zuckerberg pointed out that, within a decade, the devices for the reality virtual or augmented will have the appearance of normal objects of common use, such as glasses and will be part of our daily life.

Bot and Artificial Intelligence. the second pillar of the roadmap it is represented instead by Artificial Intelligence, and also announced new products at this event Zuckerberg. In the wake of what has been done by Microsoft, with the introduction of BOT of Skype and the future greater integration of Cortana in the app, you will be able to dialogue with the IA and perform tasks for us, even in the land BOT Messenger . Facebook believes that Messenger can become a channel of choice especially for companies, an instrument through which to interact with their customers and, for this, he thought of a system API for developers and a new platform that moves mostly in this direction. If, then, Skype BOT are meant for a consumer audience, with the ability to book flights, hotels and restaurants, Facebook has thought of IA can provide not only the classics such as automated content updates on weather and traffic, but also personalized communications natural language, receipts, notifications and much more.

From this perspective, therefore, the BOT could represent an important new tool for business, the customers and also assistance for the media. In future, users can sort through them a bouquet of flowers, delivered a work bubble but also get customized news from the media.

Of the third pillar, the one related to connectivity, which also provides for ‘ direct involvement in the development of telecommunications infrastructure both terrestrial saziali, such as satellite, is instead probably will talk about in the coming days, but even here there are certainly notable surprises.

as for the real social networks and their finally it is coming the interesting Save button, which will allow users to pin items, products and video met around the Web, in a private directory within his own Facebook page. The list will then be conveniently available from any device will be used when the user or simply when he feels like. Facebook also will also produce the User alerts in some contexts: for example, if the list is a product, we will receive a message when this will be available for sale.

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